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. . . you’ve got a guy, in the White House, rapidly working his way through every conservative’s wish list of all the good, important things that need to be done – and somehow you’ve got to ignore all that and delude yourself and your readers that Crooked Hillary would have been the vastly preferable, conservative-friendly option.
Obviously not. He is merely punching back at the contemptible pseudo-journalists, feculent with crypto-commie bias, who head up the lamestream media outlets.
When leftists accuse us of something you can be sure that they are doing that very thing. Call it political projection. The greatest threats to free speech at the present time emanate from so-called 'liberals.'
If 'liberal' is used in the classical way, we conservatives are the true liberals.
In the end, hundreds of papers telling us how bad Trump has been for press freedom may make all those involved feel good for a day, but it won't move the needle one bit. It may even have an opposite effect than the one intended.
Yes, calling the press the "enemy of the people" is way over the top, and obviously wrong. But Trump's rhetoric is nothing compared to Obama's actions in terms of press treatment.
The Left is deeply destructive and they need to be opposed. No Republican except Trump has the cojones for the job. If he goes too far, well that is what happens in a war. And it is a war. A war for the soul of America.
Politics for leftists is an ersatz religion.* This fact helps explain both the all-consuming totalitarian intensity of their political engagement and the towering rage they feel for President Trump. They were on a roll with eight years of Obama and the assured expectation of four to eight more years of "fundamental transformation" under Hillary. But insulated as they were from the mood of the country in their leftist enclaves, it came as a terrible shock to them when Trump threw a spanner in their works. And so they lost their minds to the extent that otherwise astute political operatives such as David Axelrod are saying that Trump is literally Nero. Literally!
The leftist is a secularist for whom there is nothing beyond this world.** And yet he is not content with this world but seeks a utopia within it no matter the cost. Communists murdered 100 million in the 20th century alone.
Conservative common sense is therefore a dire threat to the very meaning of a leftist's existence. And so he rages like a loon, or like the raging bull of the HollyWeird Left, Robert De Niro. Or is he a raging dinosaur? In any case this is all he can muster by way of a considered opinion on the president's performance: Fuck Trump!
And the HollyWeird hate-America lemmings cheered and gave him a standing ovation.
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*'Ersatz' is an alienans adjective. Thus an ersatz X is not an X but a substitute for an X. It is a mistake to call leftism a religion as Dennis Prager and others do. Full refutation here.
**This is true with some qualifications even for 'religious' leftists. These are typically leftists first and believers second if at all. Thus Bergoglio the Benighted is pretty obviously a leftist first and a Catholic second. Is he too a secularist in the end? I cannot peer into his soul.
To understand a person, it helps to consider what the world was like when the person was twenty years old. At twenty, give or take five years, the music of the day, the politics of the day, the language, mores, fashions, economic conditions and whatnot of the day make a very deep impression. It is an impression that lasts through life and functions as a sort of benchmark for the evaluation of what comes after, but also as a distorting lens that makes it difficult for the person to see what is happening now.
The foregoing insight may help us understand why people remain in the Democrat Party. People born in the 'twenties are many of them still living in the 'forties. For them the Democrat Party is the party of FDR. They haven't noticed the changes, or haven't wanted to notice the changes. They haven't noticed that their interests are no longer served by the party of this name. Or perhaps they are just attached to the label, or in the grip of misplaced piety: they are attached to a family tradition. "My pappy was a Democrat and my grandpappy afore him was a Democrat; we McCoy's have always been Democrats, and we don't see no reason to change now."
People born in the early 'forties are many of them still living in the early 'sixties, those heady days of Camelot when the young and vigorous Jack Kennedy and his charming wife occupied the White House, and society was all in a ferment with necessary reforms being made or about to be made. They thrilled to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" and other anthems of the Civil Rights movement. Those worthy battles were fought, and they were won, and progress was made. Jim Crow bit the dust. The liberals of those days can take pride in their accomplishments.
But soon enough the rot set in: the legitimate struggle for civil rights gave way to affirmative action as we now know it, which involves reverse discrimination, race-norming, preferential hiring, and minority set-asides. Martin Luther King, Jr. was soon followed by such race-hustlers as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton who cleverly cashed in on white liberal guilt. People were precisely not judged by "the content of their character" but by the color of their skin. Equality of opportunity was confused with equality of outcome; the quota mentality replaced the concern for justice. Justice gave way to the unconcept 'social justice' which either means nothing or is code for socialism. If you believe hiring should be based on merit you are now called a racist. Liberals transmogrified into leftists whose calling card was and remains the race card. 'Racist' and 'white supremacist' became all-purpose smear words used even by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
In the '60s , Democrats were progressive and liberal in respectable senses of these terms. But it is no longer the 'sixties, and if JFK were alive today and held the views he held then, he would be classed with conservatives. If you are living in the past, however, fixated on the glory days of youth, you may have missed the changes. You may not have noticed the difference between Jack and Teddy, the difference a brother can make.
So if you are still a Dem, you need to ask yourself: Are you living in the past? When the Dems become indistinguishable from the CPUSA will you still call yourself a Dem?
Her gravitas having given way to levitas, I am half expecting her to begin levitating into Wolkenskukuheim, a word I found in Schopenhauer translatable as Cloud Cuckoo Land. In plain English, Hillary Clinton is losing her mind in a bid to establish once and for all the psychological reality of TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Her latest sample of brain leakage is her suggestion that President Trump's wise SCOTUS pick, the distinguished and widely-lauded Brett Kavanaugh, is fixing to turn back the clock to 1850 and bring back slavery.
Hillary in 2020!
. . . there was Bush Derangement Syndrome. (The famous 2003 article by the late Charles Krauthammer.)
What is amazing in retrospect is how viciously the Left treated the mild-mannered, civil, only moderately conservative milque-toast. Remember the Buck Fush bumperstickers? Also interesting is that the intensity of the Left's rage is pretty much the same whether the target is a gentlemanly Bush or an obnoxious and crude Trump.
No matter how moderate and conciliatory you are, leftists will hate you and smear you in every conceivable way. Here:
Consider the "civility" shown by Democrats toward the eminently civil "compassionate conservative" President Bush.
Protesters regularly carried signs saying things like "Save Mother Earth, Kill Bush," "Hang Bush for War Crimes," "Bush=Satan," "Bush is the only Dope worth Shooting." They burned Bush and other administration officials in effigy countless times.
Jonathan Chait wrote a 3,600-word word piece for the New Republic in 2003 on "the case for Bush hatred." In it, he admitted that "I have friends who … describe his existence as a constant oppressive force in their daily psyche."
Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams gave a speech at a women's peace conference in Dallas in 2007 declaring that "right now, I could kill George Bush." The audience laughed, and she won praise for her "bravery."
Pollster Geoff Garin told The New York Times that Bush hatred was "as strong as anything I've experienced in 25 years now of polling."
The winning film at a 2006 Toronto film festival was a movie — Death of a President — that realistically depicted Bush's assassination.
The left regularly compared Bush to Hitler, just as they are now with Trump.
Playwright Harold Pinter said that "the Bush administration is the most dangerous force that has ever existed. It is more dangerous than Nazi Germany."
Harry Belafonte called Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world."
Civility, like truth, is not a leftist value. To understand the Left you must understand that they have no qualms about using our values against us. Thus they accuse Trump of incivility when he punches back at them despite their having no respect for civility in the first place. After all, it is a bourgeois value, and they are radicals and 'transgressives.' They will use civility if if it helps their cause but abandon it when it doesn't. It is the same as with free speech and other values we cherish.
They don't care about these values; what they care about is power. Truth counts for nothing. This is why it does no good to point out to them the absurdity of the Hitler comparisons and the falsehood of rest of their smears. As long as the smears work to mobilize their benighted base, leftists will hurl them.
If we said, falsely, that Hillary = Stalin to give them a taste of their own medicine it would do no good. They would accuse us of smearing Hillary, again using our values against us when they have no objection to smears that work for them.
This is also why it is a mistake to call leftists hypocrites. They are worse than hypocrites since they have no allegiance whatsoever to the values that their behavior betrays. And the same goes for accusing them of applying double standards. They don't share our standards.
You can't shame them either, for they have no shame.
Since for a leftist it is all about power, the only way to defeat them is by overpowering them. This is what Trump, but no other Republican, knows how to do. He knows how to get under their skin and cause them to adopt ever more extreme positions that lose them credibility with reasonable voters. He knows how to use power and he has the courage to use it.
